bowl
EXI.28/1

Ceramic bowl featuring upright pinched rim, and convex sides down to broad flat base. Decorated with three slightly irregular horizontal lines around upper body below rim. Moderately well levigated sandy orange fabric, with some white lime grits, covered in a buff slip ext./int.

Material:	ceramic
Object period:	Early Bronze IV

Place:	Tell el-'Ajjul (Palestinian Authority / Western Asia Levant)
Context:	Tomb 244
Context period:	Early Bronze IV

Dimensions:

rim	diameter:	130 mm
base	diameter:	102 mm
	height:	110 mm

Field collector:	Petrie, William Matthew Flinders
Acquisition source:	Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, British School of Archaeology in Egypt
Other object numbers:	29Z4 (type reference); B.IV.B.1.i (type reference)

Bibliography:
Petrie, W.M.F., 1931, Ancient Gaza I, pl. XL.Z4.
Kenyon, K.M., 1956, "Tombs of the Intermediate Early Bronze-Middle Bronze Age at Tell Ajjul", ADAJ III, fig. 7.4, p. 48.
D'Andrea, 2014 in press. The Southern Levant in Early Bronze IV. Issues and Perspectives in the Pottery Evidence, Contributi e Materiali di Archeologia Orientale XVII,